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Showing posts with label Norway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Norway. Show all posts

Wednesday, 16 April 2014

#102: First postcard from Svalbard and Jan Mayen

Tre Kroner; Dana, Svea and Nora Mountains

Europa stamp

Received from Julia from Barentsburg.

Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic about midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole.

Wednesday, 20 November 2013

#102: First postcard from Norway

The North Cape

Rafting stamp

Received from Monica from Brårud.

Norway shares a  border with Sweden to the east, Finland and Russia to the north-east, and the Skagerrak Strait to the south, with Denmark on the other side. It shares maritime borders with Russia by the Barents Sea; Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and Iceland by the Norwegian Sea; and Sweden, Denmark, and the United Kingdom by the North Sea.